Owais Mughal
After hitting 6 sixers today, Shahid Afridi has taken his career tally of sixers in One Day Internationals to 224.
He now holds the World Record for hitting the most number of sixers in ODIs.
For a long time this record used to be with Vivian Richards of West Indies. Jayasuria of SriLanka and Shahid Afridi alternately held this record couple of times and now it is back with Shahid Afridi.
Here is the list of 10 most six hitters of the World with 3 Pakistanis making to the top 10.
1. Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) 224 sixers at 1.00 sixer/innings
2. Jayasuria (Sri Lanka) 222 sixers at 0.6 sixer/innings
3. S. Ganguly (India) 172 sixers at 0.63 sixer/innings
4. S. Tendulkar (India) 155 sixers 0.42 sixer/innings
5. C. Cairns (New Zealand) 153 sixers 0.79 sixer/innings
6. Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pakistan) 141 sixers at 0.4 sixer/innings
7. Brian Lara (West Indies) 128 sixers at 0.45 sixer/innings
8. Sir I.V.A. Richards (West Indies) 126 sixers at 0.75 sixer/innings
9. A Gilchrist (Australia) 126 sixers at 0.5 sixer/innings
10. Wasim Akram (Pakistan) 121 sixers at 0.43 sixer/innings
Following is the list of top 10 Pakistani sixer hitters in ODIs. Number in parenthesis shows their World Rank in terms of most number of 6s hit in the ODI career.
1. (1st) Shahid Afridi 224 sixers at 1.00 sixer/innings
2. (6th) Inzamam-ul-Haq 141 sixers at 0.4 sixer/innings
3. (10th) Wasim Akram 121 sixers at 0.43 sixer/innings
4. (13th) Abdul Razzak 102 sixers at 0.52 sixer/innings
5. (15th) Saeed Anwar 97 sixers at 0.39 sixer/innings
6. (18th) Ijaz Ahmed 87 sixers at 0.37 sixer/innings
7. (24th) M Yousuf 80 sixers at 0.36 sixer/innings
8. (37th) Moin Khan 61 sixers at 0.33 sixer/innings
9. (52nd) Imran Khan 45 sixers at 0.29 sixer/innings
10. (56th) Javed Miandad 44 sixers at 0.2 sixer/innings
Didn’t I say that they have completed their quota of good performance for a few matches?
Again, after that excellent performance on wednesday, back to a standard batting collapse that has become a speciality of our batting line-up.
Rain came to the rescue the other day, or Rana Naveed and the other pacers (minus Asif of course) would have again shown their experties in entertaining the crowd through an excellent display of how not to bowl.
Afridi doesn’t do well in 15 or so maches but then one fine day he goes and wins the match singlehandedely for Pakistan. Just for that sheer talent (though very inconsistent), I wolud keep him in the team :) This is my personal opinion and feel free to disagree
official word is out. Banned for four matches, including the first two of the world cup.
for someone who plays as a top order batsman, afridi’s odi batting average of 23 is simply not acceptable. nor does his strike rate count for much when he only sticks around for about 4 overs. furthermore other teams have players who score nearly as fast as afridi and yet are much more consistent. in this category i would include players like symonds and justin kemp of south africa.
afridi was finnished a long time back and it would be a huge blessing for pakistan if he was banned from the world cup.
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have you guys noticed that lately, our tailenders have often batted better than the top order[/quote]
Is it a new thing for Pakistan??since we entered into this 21st century that is exactly what’s happening … bowlers usually do most of the batting too … even shoaib akhtar and sami or kaneria can now make 10 + (unlike our usual openers)